Below is a list of famous people speculated of having ADHD.
Check out these links, Successful People with Learning Disabilities and/or ADHD and Famous People with ADHD/LD , for additional lists.
Architect
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Artists
- Salvador Dali
- Pablo Picasso
- Vincent Van Gogh
Athletes
- Terry Bradshaw
- Pete Rose
- Nolan Ryan
- Michael Jordan
- Jason Kidd
Authors
- Charlotte and Emily Bronte
- Samuel Clemens
- Emily Dickenson
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Robert Frost
- George Bernard Shaw
- Henry David Thoreau
- Leo Tolstoy
- Tennessee Williams
- Virginia Woolf
- William Butler Yeats
Composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders
- Andrew Carnegie
- Malcolm Forbes
- Henry Ford
- Bill Gates
- David Neeleman
- Paul Orfalea
- Ted Turner
Explorers
- Christopher Columbus
- Lewis and Clark
Entertainers
- Ann Bancroft
- Jim Carrey
- Steve McQueen
- Jack Nicholson
- Ty Pennington
- Elvis Presley
- Evil and Robbie Knievel
- Sylvester Stallone
- Robin Williams
- Wright Brothers
Inventors
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Thomas Edison
- Benjamin Franklin
Photographer
- Ansel Adams
Physicist
- Albert Einstein
Political Figures
- James Carville
- John F. Kennedy
- Abraham Lincoln
Sources:
Kitty Petty ADD/LD Institute. Famous People with ADHD/LD. 2001. Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, Famous People with Dyslexia and other Learning Disabilities and/or AD/HD. SchwabLearning.org, 2001.
